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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A poet's struggle to make something of herself after her creative juices run dry. Although she has a son and a man who loves her, Charleen Forrest is still obsessed by the thought that she is a failure. The novel follows Charleen as she tries to sort herself out. By the author of The Stone Diaries for which she won the Pulitzer Prize.
Author
Publisher
Mantle
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for a momentous weekend as famous artist and notorious egoist Ray Hanrahan prepares for a new exhibition of his art - the first in many decades - and one he is sure will burnish his reputation for good. His three children will be there: beautiful Leah, always her father's biggest champion; sensitive Patrick, who has finally decided to strike out on his own; and insecure Jess, the youngest, who has her own momentous...
Author
Series
Boise State University western writers volume no. 147
Publisher
Boise State University
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
10) Certain women
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma Wheaton has interrupted her successful stage career to attend her dying father, David Wheaton. The legendary actor is obsessed with an unfinished play about the Old Testament King David written by Emma's estranged husband. As his family - itself of biblical proportions, because David Wheaton has had nine wives and eleven children - gathers, the stories of both Davids and their women are simultaneously woven together and unraveled. For Emma, being...
13) Mamit
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identifed]
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Fictionized account of the life of the author's great grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth Smith "Mamit" based real events.
14) Raising the dust: the literary housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Phillip Finkelstein
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sam and Ruth are both in the autumn of life during Covid when they fall in love and decide to get married. Their adult children aren't too sure about this new and surprising relationship, so Sam and Ruth fly the coop and drive out West. The real life characters Marv (Sam) and Freada (Ruth) who inspired the first part of this novel then decide to invite the author and his wife to come with them to visit the places, the author originally wrote about....